Assessing ontogenetic maturity in extinct saurian reptiles

CT Griffin, MR Stocker, C Colleary… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Morphology forms the most fundamental level of data in vertebrate palaeontology because it
is through interpretations of morphology that taxa are identified, creating the basis for broad …

Dinosaur Body Temperatures Determined from Isotopic (13C-18O) Ordering in Fossil Biominerals

RA Eagle, T Tütken, TS Martin, AK Tripati, HC Fricke… - science, 2011 - science.org
The nature of the physiology and thermal regulation of the nonavian dinosaurs is the subject
of debate. Previously, arguments have been made for both endothermic and ectothermic …

Taphonomy of drought afflicted tetrapods in the early Triassic Karoo Basin, South Africa

RMH Smith, J Botha, PA Viglietti - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2022 - Elsevier
The sedimentology and taphonomy of in-situ fossils from earliest Triassic strata (Induan) in
the southern Karoo Basin of South Africa is presented as evidence for episodes of drought …

A conceptual framework for the genesis and analysis of vertebrate skeletal concentrations

RR Rogers, SM Kidwell, DA Eberth - Bonebeds: Genesis, analysis …, 2007 - degruyter.com
The record of vertebrate skeletal concentration begins with accumulations of agnathan
dermal armor preserved in lower Paleozoic rocks (Behre and Johnson, 1933; Denison …

A new species of Camptosaurus (Ornithopoda: Dinosauria) from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, and a biomechanical …

K Carpenter, Y Wilson - Annals of Carnegie Museum, 2008 - BioOne
ABSTRACT A new species, Camptosaurus aphanoecetes, is named for a partial skeleton of
ornithopod dinosaur from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Dinosaur National …

A bonebeds database: classification, biases, and patterns of occurrence

DA Eberth, M Shannon, BG Noland - Bonebeds: Genesis, analysis …, 2007 - degruyter.com
In this chapter we present and review a database of 383 citations that refer to more than
1,000 bonebeds (Appendix 3.1; also available online at www. press. uchicago …

Taphonomy of debris-flow hosted dinosaur bonebeds at Dalton Wells, Utah (Lower Cretaceous, Cedar Mountain Formation, USA)

BB Britt, DA Eberth, RD Scheetz… - Palaeogeography …, 2009 - Elsevier
A taphonomic study of the Lower Cretaceous, Dalton Wells (DW) dinosaur bonebeds near
Moab, Utah, provides insight into the origins, preservational biases, and paleobiological …

Mud-trapped herd captures evidence of distinctive dinosaur sociality

DJ Varricchio, PC Sereno, Z Xijin, T Lin… - Acta Palaeontologica …, 2008 - BioOne
A unique dinosaur assemblage from the Cretaceous beds of western Inner Mongolia
preserves geologic and paleontologic data that clearly delineate both the timing and …

Phylogeny of Allosauroidea (Dinosauria: Theropoda): comparative analysis and resolution

SL Brusatte, PC Sereno - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Allosauroidea, a clade of large‐bodied theropod dinosaurs that ranged from the Middle
Jurassic until the Late Cretaceous, has been the subject of extensive phylogenetic study …

A reevaluation of cooperative pack hunting and gregariousness in Deinonychus antirrhopus and other nonavian theropod dinosaurs

BT Roach, DL Brinkman - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural …, 2007 - BioOne
Since the 1969 description of Deinonychus antirrhopus Ostrom, cooperative pack hunting
behavior for this species and, subsequently, for many other nonavian theropods, has …